I have a large hash from which I want to pass a portion of it to a subroutine. My problem is, how do I dereference it within the subroutine? 
report_block(\$report_data{$domain}{$provider});


sub report_block
{
  my ($rpt_ref) = shift;

  print Dumper($rpt_ref);
  #access elements here!
}

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That dump yields: 
$VAR1 = \{
            'error' => 0,
            'total' => 7,
            'soft_error' => 0,
            'hard_error' => 0,
            'ok' => 7
          };

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But I can't seem to figure out how to access the individual elements. After searching around I've tried the following, but neither of them are what I need. 
print $rpt_ref{total};
#Global symbol "%rpt_ref" requires explicit package name...

print $rpt_ref->{total};
#Not a HASH reference at...

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Obviously something escapes me here. ;)


-THRAK
www.polarlava.com

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